FREAKSHOW PEOPLE OF YESTERDAY PART 3

These freaks actually liked performing... well... some of them. It gave them an income. But then again this is according to the FREAKSHOW MUSEUM in Coney Island.

In 1976 my mother met a woman in a freakshow tent with a face the size of a fifty cent peice. The event was so disturbing that she blocked it out of her memory. To this day she refuses to ackowledge it even happened. It happened in a town called Muskegon, Michigan. Ironically it is also the town where I was born. I remember this event due to the fact that i found a pamphlet that spelled out this tiny womans life story. She sold them to people who visited her and this was a source of income. This woman sat on a tiny throne as if she was royalty.

As a youth I was somewhat terrified at the prospect of going into a freakshow. But I do remember the grotesque posters. These were large sheets of canvas and horrible depictions of these people inside. As a scare tactic it worked on me. I didnt have the guts to walk into these shows. As I got older these shows altogether disappeared. I still found myself fascinated with the spectacle of them.

Cantu posted this on Aug. 4, 2007 on 7:54 PM